孤獨但也不孤獨:渺滄海之一粟。哀吾生之須臾,羨長江之無窮。挾飛仙以遨遊,抱明月而長終
航海家1號拍攝地球,當時距離地球64億公里
蘇東坡前赤壁賦寫
壬戌之秋,七月既望,蘇子與客泛舟遊於赤壁之下。清風徐來,水波不興。舉酒屬客,誦明月之詩,歌窈窕之章。少焉,月出於東山之上,徘徊於斗牛之間。白露橫江,水光接天。縱一葦之所如,凌萬頃之茫然。浩浩乎如馮虛御風,而不知其所止;飄飄乎如遺世獨立,羽化而登仙。
於是飲酒樂甚,扣舷而歌之。歌曰:“桂棹兮蘭槳,擊空明兮溯流光。渺渺兮予懷,望美人兮天一方。”客有吹洞簫者,倚歌而和之。其聲嗚嗚然,如怨如慕,如泣如訴;餘音嫋嫋,不絕如縷。舞幽壑之潛蛟,泣孤舟之嫠婦。
蘇子愀然,正襟危坐,而問客曰:“何爲其然也?”客曰:“‘月明星稀,烏鵲南飛。’此非曹孟德之詩乎?西望夏口,東望武昌,山川相繆,鬱乎蒼蒼,此非孟德之困於周郎者乎?方其破荊州,下江陵,順流而東也,舳艫千里,旌旗蔽空,釃酒臨江,橫槊賦詩,固一世之雄也,而今安在哉?況吾與子漁樵於江渚之上,侶魚蝦而友麋鹿,駕一葉之扁舟,舉匏樽以相屬。寄蜉蝣於天地,渺滄海之一粟。哀吾生之須臾,羨長江之無窮。挾飛仙以遨遊,抱明月而長終。知不可乎驟得,託遺響於悲風。”
蘇子曰:“客亦知夫水與月乎?逝者如斯,而未嘗往也;盈虛者如彼,而卒莫消長也。蓋將自其變者而觀之,則天地曾不能以一瞬;自其不變者而觀之,則物與我皆無盡也,而又何羨乎!且夫天地之間,物各有主,苟非吾之所有,雖一毫而莫取。惟江上之清風,與山間之明月,耳得之而爲聲,目遇之而成色,取之無禁,用之不竭。是造物者之無盡藏也,而吾與子之所共適。
客喜而笑,洗盞更酌。餚核既盡,杯盤狼籍。相與枕藉乎舟中,不知東方之既白。
人類一直探索外太空,航海家1號(Voyager 1)是NASA發射的無人太空探測器,於1977年9月5日發射,2012年8月25日航海家1號成為第一個穿越太陽圈並進入星際媒介的宇宙飛船。截至2020年8月2日止,其正處於離太陽150.02 AU(2.24×1010 km)的位置,是離地球最遠的人造物體。
關於其維基說明:
https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E6%97%85%E8%A1%8C%E8%80%851%E5%8F%B7
NASA網站一直有更新的工作任務紀錄:
1990年2月14日航海家1號太空船剛完成首要任務之際,美國天文學家Carl Sagan(1934-1996)說服NASA讓太空船向後拍攝太陽系所探訪過的行星。當中一張照片剛好把地球攝於鏡內。地球在這張從64億公里外拍攝的照片中,只是照片裏一個渺小「暗淡藍點Pale Blue Dot」。Carl Sagan後來在《暗淡藍點》書中寫了這段話:
暗淡藍點Pale Blue Dot的說明:
https://www.wikiwand.com/zh-hk/%E6%9A%97%E6%B7%A1%E8%97%8D%E9%BB%9E
英文:
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there– on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity– in all this vastness– there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
中文:
我們成功地(從外太空)拍到這張照片,細心再看,你會看見一個小點。再看看那個光點,它就在這裏。那是我們的家園,我們的一切。你所愛的每一個人,你認識的每一個人,你聽說過的每一個人,曾經有過的每一個人,都在它上面度過他們的一生。我們的歡樂與痛苦聚集在一起,數以千計的自以爲是的宗教、意識形態和經濟學說,所有的獵人與強盜、英雄與懦夫、文明的締造者與毀滅者、國王與農夫、年輕的情侶、母親與父親、滿懷希望的孩子、發明家和探險家、德高望重的教師、腐敗的政客、超級明星、最高領袖、人類歷史上的每一個聖人與罪犯,都住在這裏——一粒懸浮在陽光中的微塵。
在浩瀚的宇宙劇場裏,地球只是一個極小的舞臺。想想所有那些帝王將相殺戮得血流成河,他們的輝煌與勝利,曾讓他們成爲光點上一個部分的轉眼即逝的主宰;想想棲身於這個點上的某個角落的居民,對別的角落幾乎沒有區別的居民所犯的無窮無盡的殘暴罪行,他們的誤解何其多也,他們多麼急於互相殘殺,他們的仇恨何其強烈。
我們的心情,我們的妄自尊大,我們在宇宙中擁有某種特權地位的錯覺,都受到這個蒼白光點的挑戰。在龐大的包容一切的暗黑宇宙中,我們的行星是一個孤獨的斑點。由於我們的低微地位和廣闊無垠的空間,沒有任何暗示,從別的什麼地方會有救星來拯救我們脫離自己的處境。
到目前爲止,地球是唯一擁有生命的世界。 至少在不久的將來,我們的物種無法遷移到其他任何地方(星球)。 訪問,可以。 定居,還不行。 無論喜歡與否,目前,地球是我們立足的地方。
有人說過,天文學令人感到謙卑並能培養個性。除了這張從遠處拍攝我們這個微小世界的照片,大概沒有別的更好辦法可以揭示人類妄自尊大是何等愚蠢。對我來說,這強調說明我們有責任更友好地相處,並且要保護和珍惜這個淡藍色的光點——這是我們迄今所知的唯一家園。
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